September 2010
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376 pages
12h 7m
English
“Ecco il ministro! Porgime la destra! Oh lieto giorno! Al fin son tua, al fin sei mia.” (“Here is the minister! Give me your right hand! Oh, joyous day! At last I am yours, at last you are mine.”)1
Anyone reading these lyrics would imagine the bride singing them while beaming with happiness. Yet the wild eyes of the young woman who emerges clutching a dagger covered with blood tell a different story. That woman is Lucia, and this is Act III, Scene 2, also known as “The Mad Scene” of Gaetano Donizetti’s 50th and most popular opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.
Written in 1835 ...
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